Vollman (fwd)

[Murthy Yenamandra]

Forwarded for Richard Romeo <rromeo at fdncenter.org>:

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From: RR.TFCNY at mail.fdncenter.org (RICHARD ROMEO)
Date: 	Wed, 22 May 1996 14:27 EST
Subject: Vollman

Chris-



Not responding to you wanda post but knowing your into Vollman my 
question is:  have you read The Atlas?  I saw him read here in NYC a 
couple of weeks ago and I was amazed at how lame these pieces were.  Some 
scattershot grope at the heart of a Mexican boxer;  some banal thing on a 
neglected Japanese housewife;  and the awfully grotesque (but strangely 
dull) piece on a guy giving blood to a hooker tainted with HIV or 
something.  He rounded out the talk with a rather strange poem which at 
least was better than the aforementioned.

I mean I was impressed with Fathers and Crows but could this be a case of 
too much or gettting by on reputation?  Not to mention Bradford Morrow's 
rather self-satisfied introduction, the evening was quite depressing.  

Didn't want to bore the Pynchos with this.





Richard Romeo

Coordinator of Cooperating Collections

The Foundation Center

212-807-2417

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